From The Largest Minority:
Miniature wooden Santa figures were removed from Rossmann stores, a German retail chain, after customers claimed they looked like they were giving the outlawed Hitler salute.
“We were astonished by the reaction,” Josef Lange, a spokesman for Rossmann said. “It looks like he’s just pointing up to the sky and we were surprised that anyone saw the so-called ‘Hitler salute’ in that. But we responded and had the entire inventory removed and destroyed.”
http://www.jwharrison.com/blog/2006/12/03/heil-santa/
This sentence would sound great with at typical hollywood-nazi accent.
But at least they didn't gas them. :-)
(I can make these jokes because i am german myself ;-) )